The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.

Common sense means living in the world as it is today; but creative people are people who don't want the world as it is today but want to make another world.

Self-actualizing people must be what they can be.

Innocence can be redefined and called stupidity. Honesty can be called gullibility. Candor becomes lack of common sense. Interest in your work can be called cowardice. Generosity can be called soft-headedness, and observe : the former is disturbing

You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.

What is the good life? What is the good man? The good woman? What is the good society and what is my relation to it? What are my obligations to society? What is best for my children? What is justice? Truth? Virtue? What is my relation to nature, to death, to aging, to pain, to illness? How can I live a zestful, enjoyable, meaningful life? What is my responsibility to my brothers? Who are my brothers? What shall I be loyal to? What must I be ready to die for?

One can go back toward safety or forward toward growth.